Extensions is the fifth studio album by the Manhattan Transfer, released on October 31, 1979, by Atlantic Records.
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Released | October 31, 1979 | |||
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Length | 37:02 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Producer | Jay Graydon | |||
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Marking a new era for the group, the album was the first one with Cheryl Bentyne, who replaced Laurel Massé in early 1979. It was also their first album with Jay Graydon in the producer's chair and their first to contain songs that were hits in both the jazz and pop categories. The song "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" reached No. 4 on the Billboard Disco chart and No. 30 on the Hot 100. "Trickle, Trickle" reached No. 73 on the Hot 100. The album reached No. 55 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.
The most widely known song from this album, "Birdland" by Weather Report, won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance in 1981. Jon Hendricks wrote lyrics for the vocalese version on the album and Janis Siegel received a Grammy for her vocal arrangement of "Birdland".
The New York Times wrote that the album "carries their exploration of group harmony to a level of seriousness that finally establishes them as the legitimate heirs of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross and the Hi-Lo's."
Extensions debuted on Billboard's Top Pop Album chart on December 8, 1979.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Birdland" | Jon Hendricks, Joe Zawinul | 6:00 |
2. | "Wacky Dust" | Stanley Adams, Oscar Levant | 3:10 |
3. | "Nothin' You Can Do About It" | David Foster, Jay Graydon, Steve Kipner | 4:25 |
4. | "Coo Coo-U" | Bill Loughborough, David "Buck" Wheat | 2:13 |
5. | "Body and Soul" | Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour | 4:26 |
6. | "Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone" | Bernard Herrmann / Jay Graydon, Alan Paul | 6:05 |
7. | "Trickle Trickle" | Clarence Bassett | 2:19 |
8. | "Shaker Song" | Jay Beckenstein, David Lasley, Allee Willis | 4:30 |
9. | "Foreign Affair" | Tom Waits | 3:54 |
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